{"id":232966,"date":"2026-06-17T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/2-edmonton-students-charged-with-using-ai-to-sexually-exploit-classmates\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:40:42","slug":"2-edmonton-students-charged-with-using-ai-to-sexually-exploit-classmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/2-edmonton-students-charged-with-using-ai-to-sexually-exploit-classmates\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Edmonton students charged with using AI to sexually exploit classmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11909790\/edmonton-students-artificial-intelligence-sexual-exploitation-classmates\/\">2 Edmonton students charged with using AI to sexually exploit classmates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11909790\/edmonton-students-artificial-intelligence-sexual-exploitation-classmates\/\">https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11909790\/edmonton-students-artificial-intelligence-sexual-exploitation-classmates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 12:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"globalnews.ca\">globalnews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team charged two 14-year-old Edmonton students with creating and possessing child sexual exploitation images using AI.<\/li>\n<li>The students allegedly took photos of girls without consent and used AI to sexualize them, targeting several classmates from a local junior high school.<\/li>\n<li>A teacher at the school brought the allegations to the attention of police in late March 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The non-profit Saffron Centre, which works against sexual violence, has been providing support to the victims.<\/li>\n<li>The two students were charged with making and possessing child sexual exploitation materials and voyeurism, with the investigation ongoing.<\/li>\n<li>This case is the second school-related incident ICE investigated involving AI and child sexual exploitation, following a similar case in Calgary in December 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone with information is urged to contact the local police or Crime Stoppers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Edmonton students charged with using AI to sexually exploit classmates https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11909790\/edmonton-students-artificial-intelligence-sexual-exploitation-classmates\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fingers-on-keyboard.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232968,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232966\/revisions\/232968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}